The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-23
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

ANTI-PovERTY socleties-savings banks
In Raleigh any who swears out loud in
the streets is liable to and fine of 81
and costs.
IT is probable that William OBrien will be
present and speak at the grave of Wendell Phil
lips on Decoration Day.
ANingenous young man stations himself at the
ferries in New York and drives thriving trade
by supplying funeral parties with TASKS of
whisky.
PHILADELPHIA News: 'Heres FIVE cents,
organ grinder; move on" ST knows the value
of peace and quietness. I never moves under
a quarter"
ceive ''iubilee peerages" in England are Mr..
Beresford- Hope and Mr. John Walter of the
London Times
SECRETARY ENDIcoTr has decided to do away
with the practice of making military prisoners
carry heavy logs for punishment. He considers
the custom barbarous.
DR. RUSH. who is at the head of the Sheffield
scientific school at New Haven, claims that the
clerical trustees of Yale much moro liberal
toward science than the lay members.
BISHOP STEVENS, of Philadelphia is undoubt-
eddy very sick man. His limbs are so swollen
with dropsy that he cannot lie down, but has to
remain sitting in chair all the time.
NJ. CHEvREUL. the centenarian chemist, had a
remarkably keen sense of smell, which extreme
pupils that IL they want to rival him in that
spect they must do as he has always done, drink
water and rigidly abjure tobacco.
THE Lick trust of $780, 900 for three bronze
groups of statuary, representing three decades of
Californian history. is be used at once for the
erection of statuary in front of the City
Hall. San Francisco. The trustees invite artists
to send in designs. which must be filed by Sept
10.
THE thing this season is for everything to
stockings, gloves, and if possible. hair. com
plexlon and eyes, must all match. or at any
rate avoid strong contrasts. In fact,
matches is what the season is for-so tho
girls think.
DEAN SAGE, the richest lumber merchant in
Albany, is a great fisherman and book lover.
His collection of books on the gentle art is
the most complete in the country and includes
copies of the first four editions of Izaak Walton.
Mr. Sage frequently writes anonymously for the
magazines and newspapers.
THE London police force are being taught
shorthand. to enable them to put paper
quickly the results of their Investigations and
examinations There are numerous occasions
on which policeman would be glad to be able
to take a rapid note of some incident which be
witnessed or conversation that he heard
MR. EZEKIEL. the famous American sculptor
has just sent to Baltimorean life-size bust Of
Able Liszt It is said to be the only one of the
great musician taken wholly from life, Is In
bronze, and was cast IN Berlin II was pTimar-
lily for this work that Sculptor Ezekiel was dec
GRATED by the Kings Of Belgium and Italy.
AN IOWA IDYL.
man may chin
And may work
For the temperance cause all day;
But he can't go fshin
And observe prohibition
Because he amt built that way.
ST. Paul Herald.
Z THE women school commissioners of New
York have proved themselves so efficient in the
board of education that now it is suggested, in a
PAPER owned by of their fellow-commission-
ers that Mayor Hewitt appoint more women
during his term, and also that the feminine ele
ment be introduced into the local boards of
trustees
EXPERIMENTS made at Ottawa. Canada. du-
ring the winter showed that Martini bullets
fred into q bank OF we'll packed snow were COM
pletely spent after sraversng distance ct not
more than four feet. Snider bullets, in hard
packed snow mixed with ice, bnt hard enough
TO prevent digging into II with sheetiron SHOW